Rail-joint support



(No Model.)

P. RILEY.

RAIL JOINT SUPPORT.

No. 424,221. Patented Mar. 25, 1890. jg Z.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILLIP RILEY, OF MARION, IOWA.

RAIL-JOINT SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,221, dated March25, 1890.

Application filed November 30, 1889. Serial No. 332,090. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILLIP RILEY, of Marion, n the county of Linn andState of Iowa, have Invented a new and Improved Rail-Joint Support, ofwhich the following is afull, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide means for making the joints ofordinary railway-ra1ls abut in such a manner that they can not spreadand get out of place, so that the weight upon the rails, instead ofspreading the oint, as it usually does, will be utilized to hold theparts together. 7

The invention will be hereinafter fully described, and specificallypointed out in the claims.

Reference is to behad to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, 111 which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rail-joint embodying my invention;Fig. 2, a cross-section through a rail on the line 00 a: of Fig. 1, oneof the braces and the adjacent part of the plate A being shown insection to better illustrate the construction; and Fig. 3, a bottom viewof the same.

The plate A should be made or iron or steel, and is placed underneaththe rails B, so as to cross the same at a right angle. It is providedwith a slot at about midwayof the plate, which runs lengthwise of thesame and should be a little longer than the width of the bot tom of therails B. On each side of the rails B is a brace O, which is provided onthe bot tom with a flange b, which fits'into the slot c1, of the plate Aand is provided with a projecting end I) at the outside edge of thebrace C, which fits under a corresponding shoulder 61 of the plate A.The upper faces of the inner ends of the flanges Z) Z) are flush withthe upper face of the plate A, so that the weight of the rail is borneby the plate A and not by said flanges.

The upper end of the braces C G is provided with a plate D, having itsupper and lower edges beveled, as shown, so that it will fit closelybetween the upper and lower flanges of the rails B. The plates D may bemade integral with the braces C, as shown in the drawings, or separatelyand attached to the braces in any suitable manner. The platcsD are heldin position against the sides of the rails B by bolts 6, which passthrough .the plates and rails and are provided with the usual heads andnuts to hold them in place.

In applying my invention the plate A is placed upon a railway-tieunderneath the joint formed by the abutting ends of the rails B. Thebraces G will come opposite saidjoint, the outer ends of the flanges 19'of said braces beneath the shoulder d of the plate A, and the inner endsof the flanges b beneath the rails 13, which will rest upon them. One ofthe bolts 6 will pass through one end of the platesD and one of therails B and the other bolt will pass through the other ends of theplates and through the other rail B, thus preventing the rails frommoving lengthwise.

WVhen a train passes over the rails B, the weight will bear upon theplate Aand theinner ends of the flanges b of the braces C, so that asthe weight is increased theparts will beheld more firmly in place, thusmaking the rails B nearly as strong as a continuous single rail.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the plate A, having alongitudinal slot (1., undercut at its ends to form shoulders d, of theopposed inclined rail-braces having inward-extending flanges l) on thelower ends fitting in said slot, the flanges being flush at their upperface-s with the upper face of the plate A, and the outwardextendingprojections b,proj ecting under said shoulders, substantially as setforth.

2. A rail joint support consisting in the plate A, having a longitudinalslot a, provided at its ends with inwardly-extend ing shoulders d d, andthe inclined rail-braces 0, formed at their upper ends with rail-platesD to fit the web of a rail and at their lower ends with in?ward-extending flanges b, fitting the slot at, the upper faces of thesaid flanges over which the rail passes being flush with the uppersurface of the plate A and the outward-extending projection b fittingunder the shoulders cl, substantially as set forth.

PHILLIP RILEY.

Witnesses:

JOHN MITCHELL, J 1 DAN MITCHELL, Jr.

